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A sweet (and chewy) path: One man's life in gum, and the ripples his innovation caused

Katherine Langford
Editor-in-Chief · Thursday, November 12, 2026 at 5:14 PM · 1 min read
A sweet (and chewy) path: One man's life in gum, and the ripples his innovation caused — Eau Claire Community news

He was 87, living in a retirement village outside a mid-sized Pennsylvania city. Walter Diemer looked like the other residents there, really — except that this one had, long ago, done something momentous. Somewhat inadvertently, he invented the stretchy, usually…

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